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Climate change is having a significant impact on agricultural crops, particularly regarding insect pest activity. Insect pests are responsible for a large percentage of global crop loss, either by killing plants directly or causing diseases. As the Earth's temperature increases, strategies to combat these pests will become less effective, leading to crop loss and a threat to food security. Temperature is the most important factor affecting insect populations, influencing their reproduction, survival, and spread. Warming could result in pests expanding their range, increasing in number, transmitting more plant diseases, and changing their interactions with predators. To address this problem, new solutions are necessary, as the population of pest insects could become uncontrollable. Additionally, temperature increases negatively affect predator species more than pests, leading to a decline in predators and an increase in pests. Farmers will need to adapt rapidly, relying on climate predi Hi, it's Heather, and I'm going to focus on the role climate change plays on agricultural crops, specifically insect pest activity. Approximately 20 to 40 percent of global crop loss is caused by insect pests. They either kill the plant directly or cause diseases in it. Farmers have different strategies to combat insect pests over time, but as temperature on earth increases, the strategies are going to become less effective, leading to crop loss and a challenge to human food security. Temperature is the most important environmental factor affecting insect population, as it affects pest reproduction, survival, and spread. Warming could cause the pests to expand their geographic range, increase in number, increase insect-transmitted plant diseases, and cause a change in their interaction with their predators. We really need to start thinking about newer solutions to these problems, or the population of pest insects will get out of hand. Another problem for agricultural crops with temperature increases is that the predators don't survive as well as the pests. The predators are more negatively affected by changes in temperature than the pests, which will create a decline in predator species, and as a result, an increase in pest species. Without some major change, farmers are going to have to face new and intense pest problems in the coming years due to the change in climate. So what needs to be done to fix this problem? Well, being able to adapt rapidly is going to be an important part of farming. Farmers will need to rely on climate predictor models to give them time to adjust current practices of farming. They may also need to develop new agricultural practices, use new crop species, and implement pest management practices to contain the spread. Without it, we all will be faced with the consequences.